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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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fsck_s5fs — File-System Consistency Check and Interactive Repair

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/fsck -F s5fs [generic-options][special...]
/usr/sbin/fsck -F s5fs [generic-options][-o
  specific-options][special...]

Description

Use fsck -F s5fs to audit and interactively repair inconsistent conditions on System V file systems. You can specify the file system to be checked by giving the name of the block or character special device or by giving the name of its mount point if a matching entry exists in /etc/vfstab. If you specify no special device, all s5 file systems specified in the vfstab with a fsckdev entry are checked.

By default, fsck asks for confirmation before making a repair of serious inconsistencies and waits for a yes or no response. If you do ...

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